- Author: Kathleen P Nolan
Dear Colleagues,
The Office of Contracts and Grants will be closed for the holidays, Friday, December 22 through Monday, January 1. However, you still can find information on upcoming funding opportunities during the winter break using PIVOT.
- PIVOT is a tool you can use to find potential collaborators and funding opportunities;
- Identify opportunities from local, state, government, international, industry, and private sources amounting to an estimated $44 billion in funding;
- Identify funding in any discipline;
- Find opportunities to support research and programmatic efforts;
- Receive weekly funding alerts on saved searches; and
- Track specific opportunities of interest.
As ANR staff and academics, you have access to PIVOT through the UC Davis, Office of Research. Register today with your ucdavis.edu email extension and begin using this intuitive and easy to use funding database.
Here are a few search tips to get started with a search:
- If you are unsure what field to search in, use the All Fields (Quick Search) search box. This will search for the terms you enter across all text fields in each record.
- Many grant sponsors do not mention specific kinds of research they will fund. Instead, they state broader disciplines within which they will consider applications. Some research topics may not get any results in searching, but that does not necessarily mean there are no grants for which the project may be eligible. If this happens, try searching for grants in the broader field(s) within which your project falls. For example, a project to study zebra mussels may be eligible under a grant looking to fund projects in the broader fields of Biological Sciences, Marine Biology, or Environmental Biology, etc.
- Keywords 'Explode' function: Use this to expand your Keyword search. For example, if you are searching on the Keyword 'Education' and Explode it, the system will automatically search for all the more specific 'educational' terms under it in the Keyword hierarchy, such as 'Higher Education', 'Literacy', etc. For more details, see the Keyword section.
- To select multiple terms from any pick list (e.g. Sponsor Type, Citizenship, etc.), click the check box to the left of each term.
Learn more about Pivot or to see Pivot in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sii7mX8rCU
Warm holiday wishes, and we look forward to helping you identify and apply for funding in 2018!
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)